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From The Front Line: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke

ISBN 9780752494296 £6.00 21 Sep 2016
Spellmount, an imprint of The History Press , Stroud, Glos (2013)
Clarke was a journalist who, by fair means and foul, managed to spend a large part of the war reporting from the Western Front. Later he covered the Irish War of Independence, although by then he had morphed into the UK's first Public Relations Officer. He pioneered the use of propaganda, and his story is certainly germane to the overall picture of the war, running into one of the "spin-off" conflicts which followed the end of the war. We have put the book in the Press category as opposed to the Biography category as it is more relevant.